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Show Lexicographical Freaks. "7 -i-hhl Qno finds curious things In diction- arleB. In a new dlctlonnry, for example. exam-ple. Nancy Hanks Is entered tinder "N" nnd described ns "a fast Amorl- -. ' tj can trotting mare." You say to your- '$ self, "Tho real Nancy Hanks will bo under 'II.' Whnt an interesting dlB- Tl tlnctlon!" Hut thoro Is no Nancy T HankB under "II," though ono finds on " , . tho pago Hannah, described as "mother "moth-er ot tho prophet Samuel." Wasn't It a curious twist of the lexicographical lexi-cographical mind thnt put in tho mara who wont around In 2:04 in October, 892, and left out Lincoln's mother, aftor whom tho oxpdltlouo maro waa named! I. Uo. i |